VBCIC provides prevention education, training and technical assistance to all indigenous communities in the Northeast who wish to eliminate interpersonal violence in their tribal and intertribal communities.

"Our survivor stories are spiritual experiences between the land and the people. Reestablishing equitable balance means we have to teach our female children who they are and empower them to take their rightful places in the community. Because the earth is female it is the women who must lead the work of restoring the environment to where it was before human interference. When women speak of trauma, we are speaking for the land who cannot speak for herself."

- From Strong Oak's keynote address at the Women of Color Institute at the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence

For American Indians, racism has existed since before the beginning of our country and it continues to this day.